Posts Made By: Dave Snope

She's Ted Baxter in a skirt.

CNN anchor Deb Feyerick asked Saturday afternoon if an approaching asteroid, which will pass by Earth on February 15, “is an example of, perhaps, global warming?”



http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2013/02/09/parody-or-does-she-believe-it-cnn-anchor-blames-asteroid-global-warming

Bonus dumber-than-a-sack-of-hammers quote: "Every time we see a storm like this lately, the first question to pop into a lot of people’s minds is whether or not global warming is to blame?"

A gripping account of the battle of Benghazi, a secret JSOC war that "kicked the hornets nest", and an accusation that Petreus was forced out as a result of it.

Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack on the US consulate because of a secret low-level war in which American hit squads took out leaders of al Qaeda militias, which retaliated in Benghazi. There was never a protest at the consulate over the infamous anti-Islamist YouTube video.

So says the new 80-page e-book, “Benghazi: The Definitive Report” (William Morrow) by Jack Murphy and Brandon Webb, two military veterans who specialize in reporting about clandestine operations at the website SOFREP.com. Their book, which they say is based on interviews with well-placed security types but contains virtually no checkable sourcing, is loaded with explosive allegations.

Obama gave his chief counterterrorism advisor, John Brennan, who is now the nominee to be the next leader of the CIA, a blank check. Brennan could do just about whatever he needed to do in North Africa and the Mideast, contend Murphy and Webb. Brennan chose to conduct a dangerous classified war without looping in Stevens, who paid with his life for his ignorance, according to the book.

So, who is to blame for Benghazi? The authors are withering on the subject of John Brennan, our likely next CIA director.

http://m.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_secret_war_behind_benghazi_mKbP26KAwILn2KKMs8NIWM/0

In the Obama world, that is progress, that is healing, that is an economic recovery, that is job creation. We have more people on foodstamps than the entire population of Spain. Imagine the entire population of Spain getting their food paid for by another entity.

. . .Since his inauguration, the US has generated just 841,000 jobs through November 2012, a number is more than dwarfed by the 17.3 million new foodstamps and disability recipients added to the rolls in the past 4 years. And since the start of the depression in December 2007, America has seen those on foodstamps and disability increase by 21.8 million, while losing 3.6 million jobs. End result: total number of foodstamp recipients as of November: 47.7 million, an increase of 141,000 from the prior month, and reversing the brief downturn in October, while total US households on foodstamps just hit an all time record of 23,017,768, an increase of 73,952 from the prior month.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-11/chart-day-households-foodstamps-rise-new-record

Facts to a liberal are like kryptonite to Superman.

(CNSNews.com) - As part of a discussion with voters about Obamacare funding, Rep. Corrine Brown (D-Fla.) told one man, “Don’t confuse me with any facts.”

“This is part of the problem,” Brown told an audience member who had asked about the billions of dollars cut from Medicare under the Affordable Health Care Act.

“In this time period it’s just like -- don’t confuse me with any facts. I was at a town hall meeting with AARP, and they talked about the pros and cons and explained everything. So I would suggest that you go and read what they have to say about it, because what you’re saying is not true.”

“What do you mean it’s not true?” the audience member at the September event at Jacksonville University can be heard saying.

“Let me finish explaining,” Brown continued, “Okay, look what you’re talking about, we didn’t take money from Medicaid to put…”

“Medicare,” the audience member interrupts.

“Medicare or Medicaid to put into the Affordable Health Care, that’s the first thing,” Brown said.

Last July, the Congressional Budget Office reported that the Affordable Care Act would cut Medicare by more than $700 billion in the coming decade by reducing reimbursement rates to those who provide services to Medicare patients.


http://cnsnews.com/news/article/rep-corrine-brown-don-t-confuse-me-any-facts

I wasn't able to get a lot of time on this due to it's 9:30pm transit after setup, alignment, focus, etc. But I'm happy with how it came out. I was thinking about adding some narrowband later if the weather cooperates. But will that make it look less "natural"? Man, it was cold outside this trip to the desert. Sitting outside 24 degrees, swapping gloved hands to use the keyboard. Never has a lava-hot microwaved chicken pot pie tasted so good.

Optic: TEC160F
Camera: QSI583
Mount: Mach1GTO

LRGB 88/28/28/28
L = 11 x 8min
RGB = 7 x 4min bin 2x2

Larger field here:
http://www.pbase.com/dsnope/image/148793379

Cropped view:

Because not hiring them is raaaacist. Wait, what? Are they telling us that criminals are black and hispanic? Isnt' that raaaacist? I say that they should start with themselves in government. The EEOC, the IRS, the DoJ, Interior, State, FCC, FDA, EPA, DMVs, etc., should all be required to hire criminals (Obama gets a pass since he's already been doing it). Lets get criminals to administer building permits and trash collection contracts and government pension funds and state lotteries. What could go wrong?

The Wall Street Journal reports:


Last April, the agency unveiled its "Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration of arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions," declaring that "criminal record exclusions have a disparate impact based on race and national origin."

Though blacks make up only 13% of the U.S. population, more blacks were arrested nationwide for robbery, murder and manslaughter in 2009 than whites, according to the FBI. The imprisonment rate for black men "was nearly 7 times higher than White men and almost 3 times higher than Hispanic men," notes the EEOC. These statistical disparities inspired the EEOC to rewrite the corporate hiring handbook to level the playing field between "protected groups" and the rest of the workforce.

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If a background check discloses a criminal offense, the EEOC expects a company to do an intricate "individualized assessment" that will somehow prove that it has a "business necessity" not to hire the ex-offender (or that his offense disqualifies him for a specific job). Former EEOC General Counsel Donald Livingston, in testimony in December to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, warned that employers could be considered guilty of "race discrimination if they choose law abiding applicants over applicants with criminal convictions" unless they conduct a comprehensive analysis of the ex-offender's recent life history.

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The EEOC's new regime leaves businesses in a Catch-22. As Todd McCracken of the National Small Business Association recently warned: "State and federal courts will allow potentially devastating tort lawsuits against businesses that hire felons who commit crimes at the workplace or in customers' homes. Yet the EEOC is threatening to launch lawsuits if they do not hire those same felons."

Here is another one from last week. NGC3521 has an interesting shell of tidal stars around a nice flat spiral. This galaxy should be in a nice position in March if anyone wants to have a go at it. It begs for longer integration times to bring out the loops in the shell and the outer arms.

Optic: TEC160F
Camera: QSI583
Mount: Mach1GTO

LRGB 140/48/48/48
L = 10 x 8min and 5 x 12min
RGB = 12 x 4min each bin 2x2

http://www.pbase.com/image/148820854

http://twitpic.com/bz3g6r

It's getting sickening watching Obama cry about impending disasters, catastrophe's, deaths, great poverty, environmental horrors, cancer, fire, and on and on and on. Your house is going to burn down and nobody will help you. He's a sick, sick, sick, person to say these things. All because of an impending 2.3% sequester cut from our total spending (85 billion cut out of 3.6 trillion), cuts to fed agencies who's budgets have already gone up 17% thanks to Obama's massive spending orgy. Now he's acting like this 14% increase in spending will kill people. He's the one the proposed these cuts in the first place, and he threatened to veto them. Now he's acting outraged, as if he had nothing to do with them.

Now he's changed the meaning of the expression "tax reform". For the first time ever, it means higher taxes. He's asking for reasonable tax reform, and it's the Republicans that aren't being reasonable. What a dishonest bucket of diahrea.

He's a bad man. We all know who the other characters in human history that lied up an alternate reality to the people like this. Leaders that claimed that that the farm crops were rich when they were almost non-existent.

Americans need to understand that Mr. Obama is threatening that if he doesn't get what he wants, he's ready to inflict maximum pain on everybody else. He won't force government agencies to shave spending on travel and conferences and excessive pay and staffing. He won't demand that agencies cut the lowest priority spending as any half-competent middle manager would.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323495104578314301609669998.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

During the summer of 2011, as Washington worked toward a plan to reduce the deficit to allow for an increase in the federal debt limit, President Obama and I very nearly came to a historic agreement. Unfortunately our deal fell apart at the last minute when the president demanded an extra $400 billion in new tax revenue—50% more than we had shaken hands on just days before.
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But President Obama was determined not to face another debt-limit increase before his re-election campaign. Having just blown up one deal, the president scuttled this bipartisan, bicameral agreement. His solution? A sequester...

So, as the president's outrage about the sequester grows in coming days, Republicans have a simple response: Mr. President, we agree that your sequester is bad policy. What spending are you willing to cut to replace it?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323495104578314240032274944.html?mod=WSJ_article_MoreIn_Opinion

Women are empowered. This is women's liberation:




RT to show the #COleg and @HouseSalazar what happened to sex offenses at CSU when concealed carry became legal: pic.twitter.com/shsGVNwT